Recent content by Derek1234

For what? 2nd degree murder? Guess he's lucky he didn't commit the offence in Pennsylvania, then.

Ms Heche alleges that she has had a very abusive childhood. Although some or all of what she alleges is contested by her family, we should cut her a lot of slack.

I don't understand why you are sometimes happy to accept confounders and sometimes not. Why do you persist in comparing Rhode Island with Texas, for example, when the environmental factors alone make it a bogus comparator?

It is a delicate subject, and I agree that it needs to be approached with sensitivity, and we need to avoid slippery slope arguments. Nevertheless, we have to make some assumptions - the standard economists' approach - about acceptable trade-offs. The same policy that you have been (correctly...

Sheila, I don't think anyone is trying to embarrass you, sincerely. As others have said, you enter some data which publicly shows on your profile. My real name isn't Derek1234, though I am a Protestant (of sorts) and married, and do come from the UK. It's fine not to enter real information, but...

Yes. It's abundantly clear. And yet ... so deniable, to those who wish to.

Well, let's use this metric: How Government Agencies Determine The Dollar Value Of Human Life. So a human life is $10m, meaning the cost in the US has been USD 601,000*10,000,000. You may have a better answer. I sure hope it's not going to be that not all lives are worth the same, though...

OK, so let's run this through to its logical conclusion. I asked you if you thought all those involved in violent protest on 06 January were Trump supporters. You didn't answer that part. So let's ask again. Using your logic, do you accept that all those who violently assaulted the Capitol were...

I watched it. The GOP congressman voted against the award of medals to recognise officers' courage; and then he appeared to pretend to make a phone call, rather than shake Officer Fanone's hand, even after he had explained who he was, and what had happened to him. Just .. wow.

I've looked it up on Wikipedia. Not always the most reliable source, but let's run with it. It explains in great detail that 14,000+ people had been arrested, and 25 people had died in the unrests. It says 93%+ of the protests had been non-violent. I wonder if the problem is what we mean by...

I don't know. There's a lot of hand-waving and whataboutery from some posters claiming that other people and other groups had violently protested. But tulc was saying that he was appalled that it had to be pointed out that the Capitol protest wasn't completely peaceful. If you agree that it...

hasn't he shown you, repeatedly, including by quoting LEOs, that it wasn't? What part of that are you having trouble following? Do you think that those rioting at the Capitol (OP) were all Trump supporters?

By "worked" I mean "was effective at reducing the R-rate and ultimately on the effects of (a) excess mortality and (b) severest effects of C19". On your second point, what if none of it worked, that really falls into how do you prove a negative. The evidence strongly suggests that some...

I'm not a C19 expert. The prevailing view among the experts appears to be that it's here to stay, so I think it'll be something we have to live with. As ever, the western world is likely to be able to do that first through vaccines (primary defence) and herd immunity (outcome based benefit). I...

We've had this discussion once. The title of the thread is: "No, the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 wasn’t a ‘completely peaceful protest’" tulc, who started it, was clearly pointing out that some people were defending it as something it wasn't. If you agree that there was [actually quite a lot...